Wings Into the Golden Sun - Blue Bird Relief

Butterflies, Birds & Wildlife · horizontal

A blue bird with wings spread wide sits at the left of a rectangular panel, next to a golden sun disc built from concentric rings and dots. Wavy yellow rays stretch out from the sun in all directions. The gray-violet background is covered in thick, swirling brush-like curls, and a stone-colored border with small symbols frames the scene. The result looks like a carved relief or tile worked over with a painterly texture.

Someone wants this piece for the strong graphic meeting of a deep cobalt bird with spread wings and a golden, ringed sun, set against a calm slate gray-violet ground that is covered in thick, swirling, oil-paint-like curls. It reads at once as a bold emblem: cool blue against warm yellow, with rays fanning out and a stone-colored frame holding it together. The look sits between folk-art relief and painterly texture, which most bird art does not offer. Visual attraction alone is a sufficient reason to want it.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski.

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